Gielgud, Sir John, and Josephine Tey. “Foreword”. Plays by Gordon Daviot, Peter Davies, 1953–1954, p. ix - xii.
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Sir Laurence Olivier
Standard Name: Olivier, Sir Laurence
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Ngaio Marsh | She had a wide circle of friends and contacts both in England and in New Zealand, where she knew everyone in the theatrical world. At her home in Christchurch she entertained visiting celebrities like, in... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Josephine Tey | Although Shakespeare
's Richard III clearly plays a major role in shaping the myth of Richard's villainy against which Tey writes, she alludes to this play only in passing, when a character comments on Laurence Olivier |
| Performance of text | Josephine Tey | Gordon Daviot
's Queen of Scots, directed by Sir John Gielgud
and starring Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
and a young Laurence Olivier
, opened at the New Theatre
in London. Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research, 1982. 10: 139 Roy, Sandra. Josephine Tey. Twayne, 1980. 23 |
| Performance of text | Hélène Gingold | After its initial, single performance at the Brighton Pier in Sussex on 4 July 1910, Looking for Trouble went on to a forty-one-performance run at the Aldwych Theatre
in London between 13 May and 21... |
| Textual Features | Josephine Tey | Like Richard of Bordeaux, this play follows the troubled career of a less-than-successful ruler and ends with a forced abdication. Daviot's realistic, balanced portrayal of Mary
went against conventional representations of the Queen as... |
| Textual Features | Aldous Huxley | Greer Garson
and Laurence Olivier
got top billing, and the film was advertised as The Gayest Comedy Hit of the Screen! Five Gorgeous Beauties on a Mad-Cap Manhunt! The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). http://www.imdb.com. |
| Textual Features | Ngaio Marsh | The core of Play Production is the commonsense of stagecraft and the illusionist assumption of the Victorian theatre, modified by those new ideas which changed the theatre in the first half of the twentieth century... |
| Textual Production | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice has been many times adapted for the theatre and for the large and small screens. Both A. A. Milne
and the Australian dramatist Helen Jerome
produced stage versions during the 1930s, and... |
| Textual Production | Daphne Du Maurier | DDM
sold the film rights for Rebecca to producer David O. Selznick
for $50,000. The screenplay was written by Joan Harrison
and Robert E. Sherwood
, who made several changes and additions to the text... |
Timeline
1944: Laurence Olivier directed and starred in...
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1944
Laurence Olivier
directed and starred in the film Henry V, making the most of the English patriotic feeling in Shakespeare
's original play.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
393
1944: The Old Vic Company began its season at New...
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1944
The Old Vic Company
began its season at New Theatre
in London with Laurence Olivier
and Ralph Richardson
in Ibsen
's Peer Gynt, Shaw
's Arms and the Man, and Shakespeare
's Richard III.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
393
1949: Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, released the previous...
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1949
Laurence Olivier
's Hamlet,William Shakespeare
released the previous year, became the first British film to win the Oscar for best film.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
401
10 May 1951: Actress Vivien Leigh and actor Laurence Olivier...
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10 May 1951
Actress Vivien Leigh
and actor Laurence Olivier
began the season at St James's Theatre
, London, alternately playing Shaw
's Caesar and Cleopatra and Shakespeare
's Antony and Cleopatra.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
404
10 April 1957: Playwright John Osborne's The Entertainer...
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10 April 1957
Playwright John Osborne
's The Entertainer was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre
in London, with Laurence Olivier
playing the lead.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
413
October 1973: Peter Hall left the Royal Shakespeare Company...
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October 1973
Peter Hall
left the Royal Shakespeare Company
to assume directorship of the National Theatre Company
(offered him the previous year), in succession to Sir Laurence Olivier
.
Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991. Mandarin, 1991.
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